Dust-mop.



A. H. HARRISON.

DUST MOP. I APPLICATION FILED JUNE 14, 1913.

1,088,659. Patented Febp24, 19m

furniture and the like;

ARTHUR H. HARRISON, OF DE KALB, TUBING COMPANY, OF DE KALB,

DUST-MOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR '10 DE KALB MANUFAG ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

Patented Feb. 24, 1914.

Application filed June 14, 1913. Serial No. 773.792.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ARTHUR H..Hnnnrson, a citizen of the United States residing at De Kalb, in the county of Dekalb and State of Illinois, have invented a nev and useful 11nprovement in Dust-Mops, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in the class of cleaning-devices, known as dust mops, chemically for a dust-mop, to cause it to take up dust readily, or treated with oil to render it an oil-mo is fastened to a suit able head-block to ang about the edges of the latter.

The primary objects of my invention are to provide an improved head-block and manner of fastening the fringe about it, which shall better adapt the device to-be introduced for its cleaning purpose into narrow spaces, as corners and underneath radiators, and to render the handle adjustable to extend it at different angles from the head-block and in different relations thereto to facilitate the use of the device and enhance its effectiveness in use.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows my improved. mop by a perspective view, with the handle broken; Fig. 2 is' an enlarged broken section on line 2, Fig. l, with one adjustment of the handle-socket indicated by dotted lines, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged broken section on line 3, Fig. 1,

The head 1-, which I prefer to form of a block of hard wood, though it may be made of any other suitable material, is a narrow body taperin toward its opposite ends, and preferably 0 the rhomb or diamond shape illustrated. The fringe 5 is fastened midway bctween its edges between an outer strip?) and an inner strip 7 of heavy fabric, such as canvas, stitched together, and is wrapped atthe bindingstrips and secure thereat about the edge-portion of the rhombshaped block. The fringe may be nailed, as shown at 8 in Fig. 3, to the block, though any other suitable manner andmeans of fastening the fringe to the block may be used for the purpose. The fringe is folded upon itself at the binding, thus forming an inner layer- 9 and the folding forms of the binding-strips, with the portion of the fringe bunched between them, a cushion 11 about the head-block to protect furniture, fittings, and the like,

'wardly, as shown at 12,

in which a fringe, usually treated an outer layer 10; and.

against injury from the block in the use of the device. To enhance the cushioning effect. the cushion is caused to bulge outby a line of stitches at 13 and a line of stitches 1-1 in its top. By fastening the fringe to the head-block in the manner described, the advantage is afforded not only of hidin the fastening means by the outer fold of t e bound fringe, but of covering therewith the fastening means and thus preventing the same from striking and injuring furniture, and the like in using the device.

While my improvement is herein entitled a mop, in the condition of the device as thus far described, it may be used as a dustbrush; and I desire to be understood as in tending it to be used as a hand-gripped brush.

To adapt the device for use as a mop, it is provided with a handle in the preferred form of a socket 15 adapted to receive one end of a stick 16, which may be fastened by a nail, as represented at 17. The socket terininatcs at its inner end in a curved tongue 18 containing an elongated slot 19, through which the socket is fastened by a screw 20 provided at the center of the head-block with its head countersunk in the bottom of the block to prevent it from abrading the floor; and a thumb-nut 21, works on the screw to clamp the tongue rigidly to the block. The slot in the tongue renders the handle adjustable to any desired angle, by loosening the nut and moving the tongue forwardly or hackwardly, and thereupon tightening the nut, thereby to adjust the handle up or down relatively to the head-' block for convenience in handling the device, and to lower the handle for introducing the block into more or less shallow spaces underneath furniture, radiators and the like. Moreover, the adjustment adapts the handle to be turned to and set and ad justcd to any desired angle in a position of extending in the direction transversely of the head-block, thus in line with the intermediate angles thereof, thereby to enable the mop to be worked broadside over a floor to cover more space in mopping.

The particular advantage of having the head-block narrower in cross-section than long, and tapered toward its opposite ends, is that it enables the mop to be readily introduced, at each or either end, into nar- 5 more or less slightly modified Withoutdeparture from my invention.

. Vhatl claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent i's 1. In a mop of the character described,

10 the combination of a head, and a fringe bound along its longitudinal center with 1 fabric at which it is folded upon itself and fastened at the inner section to extend entirely about and completely cover the edge 15 portion of the head, the outer fringe-section hangihg over and being loose from the hanging portion of the inner fastened section.

nosaaee 2. In a mop of the character described,

strips being sewed together through the r fringe along lines to form an outwardlybulging cushion about the head, and the outer fringe-section hanging over and being loose from the hanging portion of the inner fastened section;

ARTHUR H. HARRISON. In presence of.

L. HOLZIIALB, Nnnmn B. DEARBoRx. 

